Options For Animals Offers $60,000 a Year in Scholarships

Promoting Animal Chiropractic

Our primary goal is to provide the community with the highest quality, best educated and most dedicated animal chiropractors in the world. We know that some chiropractors and veterinarians need a little help and through our scholarship program we can support as many as 35 doctors a year in reaching their goals of becoming the best Animal Chiropractor they can be.

There are currently three categories of scholarships offered:
  1. Essentials in Animal Chiropractic Course Scholarships for Current Students of Colleges of Chiropractic or Veterinary Medicine
  2. Essentials in Animal Chiropractic Course Scholarships for Faculty, Residents or Graduate Students of Colleges of Chiropractic or Veterinary Medicine
  3. Continuing Education Course (CE/CPD) Scholarships for Animal Chiropractors

Qualifications

  • Student applicants must be in their last 6 months of either chiropractic or veterinary college before they can attend the Essential Animal Chiropractic course.
  • Faculty Member, Resident or Graduate Student applicants must be currently employed by or enrolled in a College of Chiropractic or Veterinary Medicine.
  • Animal Chiropractors must be graduates of an IVCA or AVCA approved school.

Thanks Options. You have changed my life. Practice is fun again”

-Recent Graduate

Scholarship Rules

Six (6) scholarships are available for each Essentials in Animal Chiropractic Course and two (2) scholarships are available for each CE/CPD Course.


Essentials in Animal Chiropractic Course:
  • One (1) $3,250.00 award for a Current Student of a College of Chiropractic or Veterinary Medicine.
  • Three (3) $2,000.00 awards for a Current Students of Colleges of Chiropractic or Veterinary Medicine.
  • One (1) $3,250.00 award for a Faculty Member, Residents or Graduate Students of a College of Chiropractic or Veterinary Medicine.
  • One (1) $2,000.00 award for a Faculty Member, Residents or Graduate Students of a College of Chiropractic or Veterinary Medicine.

Advanced Continuing Education Course:
  • Two (2) $100.00 awards for Current Animal Chiropractors.

How To Apply

  1. Obtain and complete a Scholarship Application. Click here to download the application.
  2. Write a letter of intent describing why you want to become an animal chiropractor, why you feel you warrant a scholarship, and how you see yourself advancing animal chiropractic in the future. (All winners give Options for Animals the right to publish your name and excerpts from your essays.)
  3. Obtain a letter of recommendation from a person of your choice. Tell us why you chose that person.
  4. Faculty, residents and grad students please submit a curriculum vitae (CV).
  5. Mail the Scholarship Application, your essay (letter of intent), your recommendation letter, a copy of your school Identification or completion certificate/diploma, and a photo to: Options for Animals Scholarships PO Box 3682, Cartersville, GA 30120. Must be postmarked by one week before due date.
Watch the Deadlines For Application

The deadlines for these scholarships are 60 days before the start dates of each set of modules for the Essentials in Animal Chiropractic Courses and 60 days before the start dates of each CE/CPD Course.

Scholarship award distribution

When the scholarships are awarded, the distribution will be applied as follows:

  • $3,250.00 award winners will receive $1,500.00 toward module 5 (Integrated), $1,000.00 toward module 4 (Extremity) and $750.00 toward module 3 (Cervical).
  • $2,000.00 award winners will receive $1,250.00 toward module 5 (Integrated) and $750.00 toward module 4 (Extremity).
  • $100.00 award winners will receive $100.00 toward the tuition of the course they applied for.

Create Your Own Scholarship

If you would like to donate to our scholarship fund, or create and start a scholarship a special scholarship of your own, please contact us.

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